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Nice initiative but I hope you never force it on us. I always want to be able to see the stared content of the people I follow in chronological order by default. I can see myself venture to an alternative feed if I feel adventurous but this is the exception rather than the norm. I am very appreciative of the work you do at Github. And I'm hopeful that I do not come off as too pessimistic. This feedback is only because I have seen many great products get silently ruined by greedy timeline algorithms. Trust the user! |
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Nice |
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Interested |
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Nice |
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I don't like it at all, sorry.
I think this whole feature would be better called "Discover" or "Explore" and be placed in a tab that I can check at my discretion instead of it being part of my daily workflow. |
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Please allow the option to permanently avoid this too. Many sites introduce a FYP and then default to that on every main page load. It has a major negative impact on productivity, and I pay for a subscription to avoid things like this. |
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100% agree with all your points, it's a shame more than a year later this remains an issue 😞 |
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I'm truly hating this change, triggered me to click "Send Feedback" and see posts here. I hope they revert it back. GitHub's homepage became useless to me after the new rollout. Are they even reading the feedbacks here? ugh |
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I do not understand, why github tries to become some kind of social media platform now. |
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The feed is already full of irrelevant stuff.! |
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I wouldn't mind seeing the starts of discussions in repo's I follow on a feed, what's disappointing me with the current implementation is I seem to get more 'for you' content than things I follow. Github isn't selling advertising, I see no reason for it to try and keep me on the feed longer than I need to be. |
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Personally, as a GitHub Organizations user, I would much prefer this whole are be replaced by dashboards and links that make me more productive. For example, I use GitHub Projects constantly, but it takes so many clicks to get there. Perhaps let me Organize/flag repos from my Organization/Team to include links and analysis for. Really, I don't want to see anything from my personal account by default if I also have an Organization account. |
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That would be way better. |
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Yep. I go to GitHub primarily to interact with repositories. Primarily through reading and responding to Issues, and/or through contributing code and/or documentation. And it is primarily through those repositories interactions that I interact with other people who are interacting with repositories. I really couldn't care less who starred what! When I see someone who has starred a repository, and I see that same person has starred hundreds of repositories (not uncommon), then clearly they are not so discriminating and their star means nothing! As someone mentioned in another post here, if I really want to see what someone else is doing then I can "follow" or "subscribe". Please, please don't force an involuntary feed on me!! If you really want to make GitHub useful, then give me the ability to choose which user actions I can subscribe to on a per-user (following) basis. For example, maybe I do want to know if a particular user stars a repository. On the other hand, maybe I only want to know if that user opens a PR, etc. Ideally, I would like to see my recent repositories in the large center portion of the page. If anything, feeds should be off to the side, or on another tab, if present at all. And the recent repositories should be sorted with those that I interact with most frequently at the top of the list. As it is, the "Recent Repositories" on the left side is clearly not the most recent repositories at least in terms of my interaction with them. The repositories that I interact with most frequently and most recently are burried deep in the list. What a pain! Clearly, very clearly the interface is not designed with productivity in mind. If you can't do that, then please, please, please at least make it configurable as to what appears on the page (and where) so that users themselves can at least design it with their own productivity in mind. Somehow I get the feeling that this is all going in one ear and out the other and that Microsoft is going to do whatever they want with GitHub anyway and just fill it with click bait and turn it into just another social media platform. Uggh! |
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The 'For You' is not for me. I like the new categorized 'Stars', of which I have a bunch of 'Investigate - [topic]' star categories since starring doesn't mean I want to 'follow' and see what starring or PR a user is doing — that is what 'follow' is for, starring for me is like bookmarks (and like bookmarks are a vague indication of interest, not meaning the starred repo is something I would go the trenches for). And as you point out, the existing feed mechanism could already do this. If anything adding filtering and sorting (more control) to the existing option would be better than taking away control. As someone else said, if this doesn't stay out of my way, I'll be switching to a different centralize public repo, or going with one of the self-hosted options. I mostly want to get stuff done, and only want to spend a little time on finding out about other things I might be interested in using or participating in. |
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Yes I agree. And also it requires so many clicks to get to the commits section on Github.com. Would be useful if all the commits are shown on the repository main page. |
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there is zero chance that this was green-lit by anyone who actually uses Github for work or anything meaningful. shame on the engineers who went along with implementing it and rolling it out. what an absolute, unmitigated clusterfuck. there was massive, volcanic backlash the first time; yet nothing was learned. nothing. it's astounding how it was then forced down everyone's throat with no alternative. "tone-deaf" doesn't begin to describe this; it is actively user-hostile: 🖕 fuck the users 🖕
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I totally agree with you. It's really the same crap but 10 months later. They should just move on with building useful stuff, or fix the mobile UI that's become crappier with every new update. |
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In my opinion, it would be shame for Github to transform itself into yet another social media platform. The "For you" is a step in the wrong direction, and it would be great if a setting were made available to disable this entirely. (And disabling the "Following" screen on the homepage would be nice also). I find these features to be distracting, annoying, and counterproductive. |
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Totally agree! And it is contrary to GitHub's mission statement: "Our mission is to build a global platform for developer collaboration." Emphasize the word COLLABORATION.
I was afraid something like this might happen when Microsoft bought GitHub. Took them a while to get around to it, but now they are finally taking GitHub away from collaboration and towards marketing and social media. :-( At the very least, any feed should be: optional, configurable, and off to the side! |
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I hope the developers do come to their senses and allow opt-out from the social media-fication of an overall excellent tool. In the mean time I created a firefox browser extension to rid myself of these annoying features: https://github.com/henrypinkard/RemoveGithubNews/ If anyone with more experience with this type of thing wants to help publish this and make it widely available, PRs welcome! |
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Please revert back to the old feed. Or at least give users an option to switch back. The new feed is totally useless. |
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Yes. Just give us the option to switch back and leave the 'for you' tab for the PM who designed it. |
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Please no Algorithmic cancer. Kill "for you" entirely. Do not want. Also do not want my data used for this automatically. |
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I wanna enter github and see my work and do my usual other things either on my personal account or the other, the company one. I don't want to log into github and find that it has turned into a new mutant like social media where people come to post or to just show some random repos of unrelated things from what I do, github is (or was depending on how this goes) the only platform where I could come, and just look at my own things, work where I need to, see what I need to see. The fact that I have to even try to explain how bad this is is already wrong in so many levels, github is not a fancy social media, it's a code versioning platform at its core, plus now also a place for open source communities to collaborate and where teams can develop things together. You don't need to mess with something that is already good, make your servers even better, make your processes and procedures even better, make the service that you provide even better, don't try to reinvent the wheel and change this into some fancy boring and toxic social media |
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Folks, please return the option to turn back to the old feed. My major problem is that idk how to check for updates from the people I follow. The new feed is pure noise. |
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Github Old Feed💪 Using this script you can restore the old version of the feed.
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Stop trying to force the new social media feed. It's useless and you know it. |
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I've had to turn off everything because it's irrelevant to me. I now have a completely blank page. I can't find any way to get the useful information back. Please revert this terrible change. |
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Indeed! |
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This should be the top comment or answer |
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As my other discussion I opened, there's important information that is gone in the new feed: People who star or fork my repo. This was actually very important to me as I get to know what is my userbase and helps me take decision for my project. Something I would have never known otherwise: Many people who give me stars are C# people, and most of who is forking my repo is mostly advanced C++ people. The new feed don't give me this information. I don't think removing information from the feed was ever a goal of the new feed. |
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That's my primary use case for the feed and as you noted it's gone now. |
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For the records here's the discussion: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66165 |
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I liked the old feed more. I personally do not care about new repositories and what other people star/release/whatever. I just want to see updates from the developers that I follow and see new followers and starrers on my repos. |
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Just show me my repositories and nothing more. |
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Flutter. |
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Nice |
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Great post! 10/10 so much value added. |
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Hello everyone i have an issue with my activity shown on my profile, my commits activity is not show on profile can anyone provide me any solution |
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#x# G to https://support.github.com/.
#X# GO# |
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There should be a way to dismiss a release from remaining in your feed. I've had the exact same feed for like 2 months save for one or two new releases that have popped up in that time. Sometimes the same project is displayed like 4 times with the same release date |
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what's a fork ? |
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fork is to get a copy of own, and you can edit it |
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Add an option to make text like a spoiler ! |
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Welcome! 👋
This category is a place for our community to discuss and provide feedback on the new feed — now available under the "For you" tab on your github.com dashboard.
If you have a suggestion for improvement, a feature request, or just want to share your thoughts, let us know in the discussions here!
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